Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [unc] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 2 | I 'd like erm I 'd like it for Friday if I could could you tell her cos I want it to erm go out on Friday . |
| 3 | A character affected by the magic in the corridor will turn on another character in the party , the one he likes least , and taunt him for D4 rounds . |
| 4 | The thought patterns allow me to erm put down what I wanted to talk about , expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area . |
| 5 | Well er n no , not necessarily , I mean that was the worst way they could have victimize you by er making things damn awkward . |
| 6 | But then , on the day of the election , they said , we have given you all the facts but on balance advise you to v vote for John Major . |
| 7 | I want to see , I 'm I mean I saw Mr and erm Mr nodding when Martin said he wanted to give these figures to the Chief Exec and ask him to er get it sorted out . |
| 8 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 9 | And I said , You flat out there avoiding it so he said erm you 've accuse us of erm taking slates out at night . |
| 10 | Sir Frederick thank you for er speaking to me this afternoon . |
| 11 | Anyway we need you to s to move your amendment A. |
| 12 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |